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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1884-07-22 (140 years old)

Place of Birth

Rorschach, Switzerland

Emil Jannings

Biography:

Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor. He was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Known For

Acting

2017

Hitler's Hollywood as Self - Actor (archive footage)
100 Years of the UFA as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Himself (archive footage)

2003

The Making of 'The Last Laugh' as Hotelportier (archive footage)

2002

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau as Himself / Mephisto (archive footage)

1953

1945

Where Is Mr. Belling? as Eberhard Belling

1943

Altes Herz wird wieder jung as Friedrich Hoffmann, Seniorchef

1942

The Dismissal as Fürst Otto von Bismarck

1941

Uncle Krüger as Ohm (Paul)Krüger

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)

1939

1937

The Sovereign as Matthias Clausen

1936

Traumulus as Prof. Niemeyer, gen. Traumulus

1935

The Old and The Young King as König Friedrich Wilhelm I.

1934

Der schwarze Walfisch as Peter Petersen

1932

The Tempest as Gustav Bumke

1930

Darling of the Gods as Albert Winkelmann
The Blue Angel as Immanuel Rath

1929

Betrayal as Poldi Moser

1928

The Last Command as Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
The Patriot as Czar Paul I
The Street of Sin as Basher Bill
Sins of the Fathers as Wilhelm Spengler

1927

The Way of All Flesh as August Shilling

1926

Faust as Mephisto
Tartuffe as Tartüff

1925

Variety as Boss Huller

1924

The Last Laugh as Hotelportier [Hotel Doorman]
Waxworks as Harun al Raschid
Quo Vadis? as Nerone

1923

All for Money as S. I. Rupp

1922

The Loves of Pharaoh as Pharao Amenes
Othello as Othello
Peter the Great as Tsar Peter the Great

1921

Danton as Danton

1920

Anna Boleyn as Henry VIII, King of England
Kohlhiesel's Daughters as Peter Xaver
Algol: Tragedy of Power as Robert Herne
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter as Osorcon, Pharao of Egypt
The Great Light as Lorenz Ferleitner

1919

Madame DuBarry as Ludwig XV.
Die Tochter des Mehemed as Vaco Juan Riberda
Rose Bernd as Arthur Streckmann
Vendetta as Tomasso

1918

Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil as James Fraenkel/John Smith
Keimendes Leben as James Fraenkel

1917

The Merry Jail as Quabbe - der Gaoler
Lulu as Alfredo, a clown
Stein unter Steinen as Göttlingk

1916

Life is a Dream as Verführer
Frau Eva as ihr Mann, der Fabrikant
Passionels Tagebuch as Karl Borke

1914

Directing

1937

The Broken Jug as Director

Production

1942

The Dismissal as Producer

1941

Uncle Krüger as Producer

Art

1941

Uncle Krüger as Art Direction